Dangerous Waters

It is like swimming in the Atlantic at Lekki Beach when the tides are up and waves are awash as they build, rise and break on the great boulders deliberately erected to stop another 'may yet come' catastrophe. When you are in the water, and having a human eye and nose your senses of smell and hearing are highly varied yet still you rely on them to take control of your aquacy. As opposed to the 'never so clean' waters of the lake and rivers from which I learnt to 'float like a butterfly' the Atlantic waters are cleaner and clearer.

But aquatic life has never been human at all. That is why while swimming at Lekki Beach you would like to believe that the 'waters are safe' from all the beasts, ogres and grisly dangers that lurk within the belly of the earth that is the big mass of water. Your eyes will not assure you of the safety neither will your ears but you still go ahead and try out the strokes you got left as long as you can only beat the water, until something solid come your way, and that it is land - any land.

Imagine that instead it was a shark's fin that you touched - non other thab a Great White!

Then it dawns on you that you should have been weary of the 'unknown'. So it gets tricky as the days goes. House cleaning and an impending signature. Balances, documents and reversals. One move through is accomplished by an irreversibly activity. Then the message is that 'your hand either was never there or has been archived' but you can feel it when you look for it with your feet. Your hand is either under the water or is still attached to your arm but the fear of the thought of the Great White still taking its sweet time with you as it swims along leisurely somewhere in the water, blanks and darkens your day.

I remember those dreams when I was young when I would be chased by a lion and I would be unable to move forward. I would either slip and fall or some force would pull me backwards. And what about those fights that I would be throwing punches that wouldn't go. A dream to the morning. It all means I slept well.

It is not me but the road you drive me through that will dictate how I close and open my windows - and of course which car I'll feel comfortable in. Nobody has ever explained the real issues necessitating the clean-up that has been going on beyond 'environmenta' and that is why I wouldn't know which broom to use. So how would I clean a Systems Applied Problem house that has got so many rooms? Its an ERP!

They sold and distributed some merchandise and their values to various rooms which they all forgot to clean. Now they say the people who initiated the merchandise should clean it. But why should they when the merchandise are in order and in their places? Phew. Mini master came in but I still see some merchandise and values where maybe they are no longer needed.

But what will happen when the tides 'go down', will there be more Great Whites or others like the Blue Whales shall spring up - real or imaginary. The foundation blocks still remain but without mortar and metal to hold. Will it be built from here? What next?

I haven't seen the 'While you were away' for Lucky but I bet its gonna be interesting - when chicken come home to roost - and I need Manucho here just to see him hold his nose and say 'Aaaaah that one.....'

Swim in the waters you know.

Of “God’s Great Missionaries” and Us.

This is an inspection into the lives of those great men of God - like John the Baptist, the Apostle John, the Apostle Peter, the prophet Daniel, and others.Truly these men (and women, just as deserving) were indeed “faithful” to the Lord. Their life stories are a great encouragement to us today.
However, the Lord Himself never called any of them “great.”
In fact, take Moses for example, the “servant of the Lord”: the Lord never called him “great.” The Lord honored him highly for his fidelity; but the Lord never said a word that would encourage Moses to become proud of himself.
In fact, in all these stories of so-called “Great Missionaries,” the Lord seems to take their fidelity for granted; for them to be “faithful” is just duty.
Jesus explains this principle in Luke 17: “When you have carried out all you have been ordered to do, you should say, ‘We are servants and deserve no credit; we have only done our duty’” (vss. 9, 10, NEB). In other words, we should say, “We do not deserve to be called ‘great.’”
Does this sound like the Lord does not appreciate our faithful service? No! When at last He says to you, “Well done, good and faithful servant: ... Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord”(Matt. 25:21), you will feel that He is praising you to the skies! (And that is true!).
But the Lord considers that all your faithfulness, all your hard work and self-sacrifice, is just the proper response of any honest heart to the “much more abounding grace” of the Lord Jesus; no big deal. ...
The Lord went to hell to save your soul; for you to respond by giving Him your heart, your life, your all, is no big deal to get proud over; it’s just the proper response of any believing heart to the cross of Christ!
This is explained clearly in 2 Corinthians 5: “The love of Christ constraineth us” (vs. 14). Paul says he knows some people will think he is crazy; here he is pouring his very life out in unselfish service for Christ, and still doing so long after “retirement age.”
Why doesn’t he get himself a nice little villa near the Mediterranean Sea, and rest from his long life of grueling service? We have lots of retired pastors and teachers, today; but Paul could not “retire” because that love (agape) of Christ kept tugging at his heart; was he a better man than we are?

No; he had simply seen something that day when he was on his way to Damascus to try to destroy the church of Christ—he saw Jesus, and Jesus spoke to him and said “it is hard for thee to kick against the goads.”
Paul never forgot that!
We can still let self be crucified when we “retire,” and although we may grow some roses, etc., we can keep ourselves dedicated to the Lord.
The Holy Spirit is giving you and me individually, personally, our own little “vision” of that love [agape] of Christ. The final movement is coming suddenly; let us be ready to welcome the Lord’s leading.